LA CROSSE -- A Korean War veteran from Wisconsin finally has received his Purple Heart, decades after he was wounded.
Eighty-three-year-old Ray Anderson of French Island received the Purple Heart at a ceremony Friday in La Crosse.
U.S. Rep. Ron Kind presented the medal to Anderson, along with the National Defense Service Medal and other recognitions.
The La Crosse Tribune reports Anderson's son, James, had contacted Kind's office. Kind's staffers learned a clerical error had prevented Anderson from receiving his recognition.
Ray Anderson enlisted in the Army at 17 on Sept. 16, 1949. He spent just over a year in South Korea before he was injured when his jeep struck a land mine Feb. 7, 1951. The explosion left shrapnel in his head and neck. He was honorably discharged in 1952.